I'm a little confused by the Aug 2010 cumulative. The file sizes are 35mb and 51mb respectively. But the June 2010 cumulative file sizes are 83mb and 407mb! This would imply to me that Aug requires June. What am I missing?

thats the benefit of the support lifecycle! As support for SP1 has ended - which means that all supported machines now have to be on SP2 - hotfix packages don't have to include the fixes between SP1 and SP2 anymore.

So the smaller files are a result of the new SP2 baseline for August CU.

I received a couple of comments related to installation problems for these hotfixes.

If you have problems to install one of these hotfixes, please open a support case with Microsoft Support to get them analyzed individually.

Cheers,

Stefan

Eric Riehl

8 Sep 2010 11:45 PM

If I have installed SharePoint 2010 on a new server but not run the config wizard, do I need to do that first at least once before I can apply the Aug 2010 CU? Or, can I install the Foundation and Server CU's and then run the wizard for the first time?

In the past (with MOSS 07), some updates wouldn't install unless you had created at least one web app and root site collection.